ghost in The Moving Finger — AusFigures public-text record

PUBLIC-TEXT RECORD / ARCHIVE

ghost in The Moving Finger

YEAR
1895
PLACE
Not mapped
SOURCE
Project Gutenberg Australia
AUSFIGURESPUBLIC-TEXT ARCHIVEARCHIVE INDEX
PUBLIC-TEXT RECORD

ghost in The Moving Finger

and drawing out a pistol, ran down it. As he turned the corner, he came full on Nellie standing motionless in the moon-light; the covering had fallen from her head, and she was stretching out her arms to a mounted figure which was draped, horse and all, in a long white cloth which fell almost to th…

Record ID
2,285
Year
1,895
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Index status
Archive detail (not indexed)

This reviewed public record supports the curated archive pages but intentionally remains outside the search sitemap.

Record context

Record ID
2285
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
The Moving Finger; Mary Gaunt
Published
1895
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
Source voice
Source Grounded Section Record
Publicness
Public Domain Public Web

Source-grounded excerpt

and drawing out a pistol, ran down it. As he turned the corner, he came full on Nellie standing motionless in the moon-light; the covering had fallen from her head, and she was stretching out her arms to a mounted figure which was draped, horse and all, in a long white cloth which fell almost to the ground. It flashed across the overseer that this was the "Trotting Cob," this was the ghost he had been warned against, and a very substantial, life-like ghost it was too. He wondered as he stood there that any man could be deceived. The girl stood right in its path, right between the two men, and to move, the horseman must either ride.

The excerpt is presented as public-source context. Terminology belongs to the cited source and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.

Browse this record

Narrative type: Ghost and Apparition AccountsEncyclopedia profile: GhostSource: Project Gutenberg AustraliaOpen original public source

Related public records

  1. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17631861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountsled her to suspect the reality of the white man's relationship to her family ; for she actually instigated her husband to murder Darumboy in revenge for the loss of her dog I This, it seems, the old man was not indispos…
  2. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17651861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountslf being situated on the elevated point of land already men- tioned, and commanding a beautiful view of the bay with its fine scenery all round. But— ** * Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound ' from the uninh…
  3. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17661861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountsnciliated their affections once more, and succeeded in keeping the peace. In regard to the word Mawgooy^ I may mention, as an additional illustration- of the singular diversity of languages among the aborigines of Austr…
  4. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17671861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountshe Australian dialects. There are at least twenty-five different dialects spoken within 200 miles' radius of Brisbane. " Turrubul *' is spoken at Brisbane, and " Dippil " about the Glasshouse mountains, sixty miles nort…
  5. ghost in Human Repetends#22611872 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Ghost and Apparition Accountslose her before a word could pass between us, appeared to give me the right to seek to know more of her. The proud queen of many a fantastic dream-revel; the sad chatelaine of many an air-built castle; had this portrait…
  6. ghost in Tales of Australian Life#19981875 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsinquire, it is not. If you think I'd ask one of them to-morrow one breath of a io6 Marie Denton. question about the reports that are going, you're mistaken — 'tsht ! " Miss Bertram snapped her fingers with an air of utt…
AboutSourceIndexMap